mfleitz Posted July 22, 2002 Report Share Posted July 22, 2002 My partition table became corrupt on my hard drive that contained my Retrospect catalogs. I had the 20GB drive setup with four HFS+ partitions. (I am running OS 9.2.2, and Retrospect 4.3). I managed to save one partition that contained my system folder but couldn't get the other three mounted. I wasn't too concerned because everything was backed up. So I reinstalled Retrospect and tried to recreate the catalogs from tape (SureStore 40x6e) and it appeared to work. But when I went to restore either the entire disk or restore files and folders, it shows the black dot next to a number of files. I don't know why all of these files would be missing because I check the backup logs daily and they show up as executing successfully. I don't have any problem restoring when I do have the catalogs but I've never had to recreate a catalog before and this is very disturbing to me if the catalogs can't recreate themselves from disk. Is there a problem with the restore? How can I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted July 23, 2002 Report Share Posted July 23, 2002 When you view the preview browser while setting up an immediate backup or restore, files that have already been backed up, or already exist on the destination volume, are preceded by a diamond symbol. The file will not be backed up or restored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfleitz Posted July 23, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2002 Thanks for your reply. Let me ask you one more set of questions. Two days before my drive got screwed up, I had done a New Media Backup (for a full backup) on a set of new tapes and in the log, it showed up as executing successfully. Then my main drive that contained the Retro catalogs got screwed up. I was only able to save one of four partitions. I copied over those files to a different drive, and then reformatted the main drive using Drive Setup. I didn't do a low-level or zero-all-data format. I recreated the catalog then (which took a long time), and the diamonds showed up next to the files. Why are they showing up if I did a New Media backup? Shouldn't all the files be there on that set of tapes? Or could it be seeing the data still on the reformatted drive and that's why the diamonds are showing up? Last question: if I did a low-level format or zero-all-data format on this drive, then recreated the catalog again, could potentially the diamonds go away? Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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